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34 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta

SYNONYMS

upeksa—neglecting them; kariya—doing so; kaila—did; mathura—the town named
Mathura; gamana—traveling; mathura—Mathura; dekhiya—after seeing it; punah—
again; Raila agamana—came back.

TRANSLATION

Thus neglecting the blasphemy of the Varanasi Mayavadis, Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu proceeded to Mathura, and after visiting Mathura He returned to
meet the situation.

PURPORT

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not talk with the Mayavadi philosophers when
He first visited Varanasi, but He returned there from Mathura to convince them of
the real purpose of Vedanta.

TEXT 45

SACS cares YU-Hewtea |
Sia Ua Feel ety BoM HAT I Be

kasite lekhaka sudra-sricandrasekhara
tanra ghare rahila prabhu svatantra isvara

SYNONYMS

kasite—in Varanasi; lekhaka—writer; Sudra—born of a Sudra family; $ri-candra-
Sekhara—of the name Candrasekhara; tarira ghare—in his house; rahi/a—remained;
prabhu—the Lord; svatantra—independent; isvara—the supreme controller.

TRANSLATION

This time Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candrasekhara, although he was
regarded as a siidra or kayastha, for the Lord, as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, is completely independent.

PURPORT

Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candrasekhara, a clerk, although a sannyasi
is not supposed to reside in a Sudra’s house. Five hundred years ago, especially in
Bengal, it was the system that persons who were born in the families of brahmanas
were accepted as brahmanas, and all those who took birth in other families—even
the higher castes, namely, the &satriyas and vaisyas—were considered siudra
non-brahmanas. Therefore although Sri Candrasekhara was a clerk from a kayastha
family in upper India, he was considered a sudra. Similarly, vaiSyas, especially those
of the suvarna-vanik community, were accepted as sudras in Bengal, and even the
vaidyas, who were generally physicians, were also considered Sudras. Lord Caitanya
